The Rev. Maurice Ramsey, standing heals Richard Smith of Newburgh while his wife Joanne, left, watches.
Holistic healing helps harmonize physical, spiritual bodies
By JULIA CAMPBELL
Staff Writer
Middletown - The Rev. Maurice Ramsey splashed Rendon's Tabaco incense on his hands before he used them to clear the "negativity" from Joanne Smith's aura.
Taking deep breaths, Ramsey placed his hands above her head. Then moved them, trembling down the length of her body.
"You've got some blockage down here," Ramsey said as he passed his hands over her stomach and used his fingers to pull out the negative energy. "Ok, that's being released now. That's better."
Ramsey, a certified minister of the Light in the United Spiritual Scientist Fellowship and director of the House of Miracles in Cuddebackville, called on the spirit to help him heal Smith and five others at a holistic healing demonstration yesterday at Howard Johnson's in Middletown.
While the annual Psychic Fair went on next door, Ramsey showed participants how he heals. Holistic healing helps people harmonize their physical, emotional and spiritual bodies through stress reduction.
"There is no magic to this," Ramsey told them. "The power comes from within. I'm only a channel for the spirits."
Ramsey said the healing only works for those who are ready to be healed, for those who are ready to be healed, for those who believe the Holy Spirit can heal.
Smith, herself a spiritual healer and minister of the Sanctuary of Light Church in Newburgh, volunteered to be first.
Smith, herself a spiritual healer and minister of the Sanctuary of Light Church in Newburgh, volunteered to be first.
"I just wan to know, I don't let many people work on my energies," Smith told Ramsey
But when he finished, Smith said she had felt the "tingling, I felt the light going through me."
Julie Trainor, 35, of Thompson Ridge told Ramsey she had problems with her stomach and head. It was her first holistic healing.
"Focus on the beautiful white light, pull it into your body, coming from the crown of the head through the body," Ramsey told her. Within minutes, Trainor said she felt relaxed. "I hesitated before coming here, but I'm glad that I did," Trainor said. She said she would do it again.
Ramsey said he has had the gift to heal since childhood, when he would heal relatives and family friends at his boyhood home in the Bronx. While he dabbled in crystals at first, Ramsey turned to holistic healing after he injured his back from a fall at a construction site several years ago.
"The more I do it the stronger I get," Ramsey said after the demonstration. Ramsey said self-healing technique can be used at home, too: stand in front of the bathroom sink and imagine taking a shower, running your hands down the length of your limbs, brushing the negativity away.
"Think positive and flow within the white light," Ramsey said. "We all have the power within us. The key is L-O-V-E. With that you can open any doors.